Improvement in caps for bottle-stoppers



J P LINDSAY Gap for Bottle-Stopper.

No. 210,545. Patented Dec. 3, 1878'.

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JOHN P. LINDSAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOJAMES E. VVILDEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN CAPS FOR BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,545, dated December3, 1878; application filed September 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. LINDSAY,- of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gaps for Bottles, 850.; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

The figure is a perspective View of the bottle-cap constituting myinvention.

This invention relates to caps which may be placed upon the necks ofbottles, over the cork, and locked or secured, so as to prevent thetampering with the contents of such bottles, jugs, demijohns, &c., towhich they may have been applied.

In the accompanying drawings, P P refer to a bisected cap, it beingsectioned vertically or longitudinally, and each section is providedwith two downwardly-projectin g arms, S S, one attached to each side.These arms are hinged or pivoted together, scissors-like, in pairs, withtheir lower ends connected to two semicircular bands or plates, It It,which fit around the neck of the bottle, over whose cork the cap P P isplaced, and below the bulge or head formed in or upon said neck ofbottle.

T is a hasp, hinged to the top of one of the sections of the cap P P andfitting down upon the other cap-section, which is provided with astaple, U, extending up though a slot in the hasp. The hasp is locked inposition preferably by a padlock, which is attached to the staple U.Other means, of course, may be used to accomplish the same end.

By removing or unlocking the lock from the staple passing through thehasp, the parts or sections of the cap can be separated, simultaneouslywith which movement of these parts the .clasps or bands It will besufficiently removed from the bottle-neck to enable the removal of thecap from the bottle, when its cork can be withdrawn.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States The bisected cap P P, with eachof its sec tions provided with arms S S, hinged 0r pivoted together inpairs, scissorslike, in combi nation with the hasp T, staple U, andclasps or bands R It, connected to the lower ends to the arms S S,substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN P. LINDSAY.

Witnesses 7 WILLIAM V. A. PoE, CHARLES F. WILDEY.

